Former Vice President Mike Pence gave Tucker Carlson the answer he wanted on Jan. 6. 'I've never used the word insurrection, Tucker, over the last two years,” Pence said at a major campaign event in Iowa. “It was a riot that took place that day.”
about Jan. 6—a remarkable display for a man who the pro-Trump mob wanted to execute for his refusal to overturn the 2020 election.
“I saw firsthand where they’d evacuated us down to the loading dock down below the Senate chamber, police officers that, as the day wore on, were streaming through,” Pence recalled. The exchange over the storming of the Capitol started off about as awkwardly as possible, with Carlson appearing to catch Pence off guard.
As Pence stalled, Carlson was noticeably cackling away from his microphone as Pence got around to his actual answer.
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